CV

2022 [Expected]

2017

2016

PhD in Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ

Dissertation: Documenting Reawakening Languages: A Case Study of Tunica

Committee: Robert Henderson (chair), Ofelia Zepeda, Wilson de Lima Silva

MA in Linguistics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

BA: Anthropology, French, Linguistics, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

2020

2019

2019

2019

2018

GPSC Research and Project Grant for dissertation work  ($1192.10)

SBS Grad College Fellowship for tuition costs ($4,038)

Linguistics Tuition Scholarship, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona ($2,929)

Endangered Language Foundation for work with Uspanteko ($2000, offered)

Travel Fund Award, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona ($200)                         

Employment

March 2021-June 2021

Linguist for the Tunica-Biloxi Language and Culture Revitalization Program (Part-time) Created and led community events such as workshops on reawakening languages and phonetics and phonology training for language apprentices, co-taught a beginning Tunica class aimed at 11-16 year-olds, worked on language materials including a textbook. Evaluated language program progress.

Fall 2020-present

Fall 2020

2018 – 2019

Other Research

Aug 2020-Mar 2021

2015 – present

2018 – Spring 2020

Graduate Research Associate . NSF grant ‘Compositional Morphosemantics of Plurality’. PIs: Heidi Harley and Robert Henderson. Led the creation of a COVID-compliant language community survey for Seri meant to target language revitalization that community members would like the research team to support.

Graduate Research Associate to Noam Chomsky Edited videos, supervised students, and graded papers for Dr. Chomsky’s course Language and the Mind (LING 211)

Graduate Research Assistant. NSF grant ‘Investigations into tone and stress in a complex prosodic system’. PIs: Robert Henderson and Ryan Bennett Worked with PRAAT, ELAN, made EGG readings, audio recordings, and data analysis, and helped facilitate two linguistic workshops at the Comunidad Lingüistica Uspanteka in Uspantán, Guatemala.

Linguist intern for the Tunica-Biloxi Language and Cultural Revitalization Program.    Aided with language revitalization efforts including editing and creation of pedagogical materials, providing relevant linguistic training for language apprentices, and organizational and supervisory work.    

Tunica Language Working Group, Tulane University, LA    Work in conjunction with tribal linguists and Tulane linguists to edit and write the Tunica Textbook as well as other pedagogical material.       

Hiaki Language Research and Documentation Project, AZ. Contributed to a language learning textbook and worked in elicitation sessions with speakers of Hiaki gathering data for documentation, linguistic analysis, and pedagogical materials. Supervised two undergraduate researchers.      

2021

2021

2021

2021

2021

2021

2021

2020

2020

2019

2019

2018

2018

Centering Revitalization in Remote Documentation Work. Arizona Linguistics Conference 15. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona (Online)

Bennett, Ryan, Robert Henderson, and Meg Harvey. Vowel deletion as gestural overlap in Uspanteko. Form and Analysis in Mayan Languages  VI. San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico (Online)

Bennett, Ryan, Robert Henderson, and Meg Harvey. Vowel deletion as gestural overlap in Uspanteko. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona (Online)

Harley, Heidi and Meg Harvey. Pluralia Tantum in Hiaki. Friends of Uto-Aztecan Conference 2021. University of Texas. Austin, Texas (Online)

Bennett, Ryan, Robert Henderson, and Meg Harvey. Vowel deletion as gestural overlap in Uspanteko. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona (Online)

Pierite, Elisabeth, Donna Pierite, Meg Harvey, Andrew Abdalian, Tyler A. Whitaker, N. A. Wendte. Demystifying the Reclamation of Reawakening Languages: A Case Study of Tunica. 7th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC). University of Hawaii at Manoa (Online).

Bennett, Ryan, Robert Henderson, and Meg Harvey. Vowel deletion as gestural overlap in Uspanteko. Linguistic Society of America Virtual Annual Meeting (LSA). (Online).

Harley, Heidi and Meg Harvey. Hiaki Echo Vowels are motivated by phonotactics but not the way we thought. Poster presented at the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada.

Mery, Yvonne, Amy Fountain, Niamh Wallace and Meg Harvey. Linguistics and Libraries Together: Integrating Information Literacy into the Curriculum. Student Success Conference. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona.

Bennett, Ryan, Robert Henderson, and Meg Harvey. The interaction of tone and Intonation in Uspanteko. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Melbourne, Australia.

Hiaki short forms: a theoretically-informed description of Hiaki allomorphy Poster presented at: Symposium for American Indian Languages. University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ.

Bennett, Ryan, Robert Henderson, and Meg Harvey. The interaction of tone Intonation in Uspanteko (Mayan) Sound Systems of Latin America III. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Amherst, Massachusetts.

Language, Identity, and Play: Video Games and Revitalization presented as Part of the panel The Meaning of Language Revitalization in a Digital Age: A Tunica Case. Society for Linguistic Anthropology. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania